COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Could someone please explain why a self-styled progressive
paper runs a big item at the top of the page about John McCain, that is, other
than its containing an attack on Trump?
The shabby controversies of this man's life are too many to
recite, but they start with a long reputation as a nasty brat, not quite bright
enough to make it on his own, who always used the fact that both his father and
grandfather were senior admirals to intimidate people above him in school and
in the service, and they extend to the testimony of fellow prisoners in Vietnam
that he talked to his captors, who were well aware of his father’s identity,
and definitely received special treatment from them.
There's also the lovely story of his return from Vietnam to
find his poor wife had been disfigured in a car accident. He promptly divorced
her and married Cindy, a woman worth several hundred million.
Now, Cindy, as it turned out, in her rich matron charitable
work was a drug addict (all on the public record) who stole drugs from her
charity. She was caught and faced serious penalties, but the moralistic Mr
McCain intervened and got her off with a slap on the wrist. But of course he
has always favored the most brutal measures for those found using or dealing
drugs.
McCain's life was saved by a poor Vietnamese peasant who
pulled him out of the lake where his plane crashed after being shot down while
bombing civilian targets around Hanoi. While McCain thanked the man with words,
this rich brat never did a thing to improve the life of the man who saved his.
These are just a few of the many stories found in John
McCain's life. Of course, everyone surely knows of his corrupt taking of money
from the corrupt president of a financial institution who himself went to
prison.
And I'm pretty sure everyone knows about his many intrusions
into American foreign policy, always of course on the side of war and
aggression.
By the way, it is easy enough to find on the Internet a
photo of Mr. McCain with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS, and some of
his associates. We don't know what he was doing, but we can be sure it dirty
stuff.
So this man is simply an outstanding witness to speak
against Trump, isn't he?
